Improvement in scissors-gages



ELIZABETH WIGGINS.

SCISSORS-GAGE.

Patented May 30,1876.

No.178Q093.

WITNESSES monms.

N- FETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

ELIZABETH wreaths, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'SClSSORS-GAGES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,093, dated May30, 1876; application. filed May 1, 1876.

To all 'whomit may concern:

Be it known that 1, Mrs; ELIZABETH. WIG- GINS, of Brooklyn, Kingscounty, State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedSelf-Measuring Shear Attachment, .of which i the following is aspecification: i

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective View. of myimproved device, shown as applied to a pair of shears. Fig. 2 is a fiontvie'wof the device; and Fig. 3 is a detail cross-sectionof the same,taken through the line mm, Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved device forattachment to shears for cutting bias and straight trimmings, and

which will enable the trimmings to be out i l niuch morerapidly andaccurately than when cut in. the old way.

My invention consists in the extension-arm and the adjustablegage-plate, made in two parts, closing together, in combination with anordinary shears, as hereinafter fully described. i

In the, drawing, it represents a pair of I shears, to the upper blade ofwhich, near'its pivot, is attached the end of an arm, B, which is madein twoparts sliding upon each other, and clamped to each other, whenadjusted, by

aset-screw, b The inner end of the inner part of the arm B is bent atright angles, to term a base to rest against the blade of the shears,and has a hole formed through it to receive the screw W, by which itissecured to the blade of the shears A. Upon the parts of the arm B isformed a scale of inches and fractions of an inch, for convenience inadjusting the gage-plate O. The gage 0 slides upon the extension-arm B,and is secured in place,

when adjusted, by a clamping-screw, O. The

gage-plate O is madejn two-parts,pivoted to each other near their innerends,and connected to eachother near their outer ends by. a

pin attached to one of the said parts, and passing through a slot in theother, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. By this construction,when thebladesare closed the two parts of the gage-plate-G are closed, and asthe blades are opened the lower part remains upon the table,

so as to serve as a stop to the goods. 1 In using the device, the goodsare .folded evenly, and the gage-plate G is adjusted to. i the requireddistance. The lower blade of the shears is then passed beneath thefolded goods in sucha position that the edge of the goods may restagainst the gage-plate Cl, andthe strip is cut off by a single clipofthe'shears.

Havingthus described my invention,whatI I claim as new, and desiretosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The extension-arm B andvthe adjustablegage-plateO, made in two parts, closing together, incombination with;an'ordinary shears, substantially as herein shown and described.

. ELIZABETH WIGrGrINSL Witnesses: e V l j JAMES T.GRAHAM,

T. B. MOSHER.

